Too many new power plants were built in the United States in the 1990’s and that led, together with the slowdown in economic activity, to a slump in wholesale electricity prices from which the mer...

by Keith Martin, in Washington The Internal Revenue Service answered questions in late January about a new law that will let companies pay taxes at a lower rate on income from “manufacturing” in t...

In an otherwise soft project finance market, windpower deals are a bright spot. More than 180 people attended a roundtable discussion that Chadbourne hosted in mid-January in Houston...

by Keith Martin, in Washington The US government is hoping that US companies will bring back billions of dollars this year from overseas to take advantage of a special 5...

Ethanol plants are another bright spot in an otherwise weak project finance market...

Equity participants in the leveraged-lease market are agonizing over whether they have to rerun earnings from a variety of highly-structured equipment lease transactions that were done in the last...

by Jana Dimitrova, in Washington Project developers using nascent renewable energy technologies in the United States may qualify for grants from the US government...

With the Kyoto protocol on climate change scheduled to enter into force on February 16, 2005, the jockeying for the post-2012 round of emission reductions has already started.